Women: Inferior or not? Patriarchal beliefs concerning the role of women and their disproof in the United States of America in the 19th century

The higher level education of women in the United States of America became widespread in the so-called antebellum period (between the war of independence and the civil war). The subject of my thesis is how the age-long beliefs relating to the inferiority of women defeat by the effect of education and to what extent did the original aim — "training" for a better mother and wife — of the education development of women accomplish. Furthermore, I even deal with those originally unwished results in which evolvement the education had an important role and which resulted that women stepped towards becoming equal to men.